When it was announced that a housekeeping unit for what had once been the Chicago Public Library, was forming, he applied to be part of the Dewey Decimate Squad, Unit 900. That unit’s task was scouring the information contained within the books, magazines, microfiche, recordings, films and flag historical corrections that needed to be made. Someone who cared should be there to witness the death of civilization, he told his fellow presos.

He had an ally in old Mark Gilbert, a fellow incorrigible. Mark was not homosexual; a former priest, he’d earned his label by being the wrong kind of Christian.

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I never know what to say about myself. I let what I write try to speak as to who I am. I can only add, here, that I am 72, live in a nursing home, am twenty years a cancer survivor, and identify as a gay male. I intend to use this blog as storage for poems? written over the long years (and still being written). This does not preclude other uses.